Congress

AUSTIN — Former Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday night cautioned Americans against electing a “critic-in-chief” in 2016, sharpening a contrast between himself and a bevy of fellow Republicans whom he could face in the 2016 presidential race. Perry’s speech to conservative activists in Washington, D.C., offered the most full-throated articulation yet of a theme he […]
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AUSTIN — Gov.-elect Greg Abbott on Thursday morning offered a lengthy account of perhaps his most unlikely meeting since being elected in November: coming face-to-face with his favorite litigant in Washington, D.C. Abbott, who as attorney general has sued the Obama administration more than 30 times, was invited to the White House last month to […]
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AUSTIN — Attorney General Greg Abbott has a new data point to make the case against President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration: Almost half the states are on Texas’ side. “This is not just a Texas-based issue, certainly as it concerns the way the president is destroying the Constitution,” Abbott, the incoming governor, said […]
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As congressional Republicans look for ways to block President Obama’s executive order delaying deportations for millions of undocumented immigrants, Texas’ GOP delegation has issued a letter supporting Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s lawsuit challenging the administration move. A letter released Monday carries the signatures of both Texas U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, as […]
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President Barack Obama is preparing to take executive action on immigration, possibly within the next two months, according to a group of Texas businessmen who met Friday with senior White House officials. Beto Cardenas, a Houston-based immigration lawyer, said on a conference call that the group left the meeting with the impression that Obama expects […]
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AUSTIN -Gov. Rick Perry, asked his advice regarding the Washington standoff, urged negotiation. “The first step is recognizing, listen, we’re not going to get everything we want, but people don’t expect that. What people expect is for us to sit down and to work out our differences, and so that would be my broad-based recommendation […]
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